Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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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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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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