If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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 visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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