Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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