Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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