Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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