Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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