She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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