I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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