Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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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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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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