To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
More Henry James Quotes
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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