Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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