It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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