Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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