If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMESI’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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