She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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