I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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