Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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