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.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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