I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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 a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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