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.’
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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