Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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