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.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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 is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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.’
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