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.
HENRY JAMESThe power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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