Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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