The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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