I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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