The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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