Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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