I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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