Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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