Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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