Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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