Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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