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.
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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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.’
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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