I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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