Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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 establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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