I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
More Henry James Quotes
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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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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