To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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