Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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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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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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