You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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 unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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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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