If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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