One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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