Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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