Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESIt led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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