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.
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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 hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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