I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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