You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESIf 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.’
More Henry James Quotes
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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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