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.
HENRY JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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