I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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