Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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 is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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