If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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