Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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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 hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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 right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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