And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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