If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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