Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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