If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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