An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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