I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
More Henry James Quotes
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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