Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
More Henry James Quotes
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we 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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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