If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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