I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
HENRY JAMESGod’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
More Henry James Quotes
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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