Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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 work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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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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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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