You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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