Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The 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.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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