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Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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More quotes by Henry James
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Henry James
Excellence does not require perfection.
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it set to work and you will feel like it.
Henry James
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
Henry James
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
Henry James
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
Henry James
In art economy is always beauty.
Henry James
Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.
Henry James
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
Henry James
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
Henry James
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
Henry James
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Henry James
Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
Henry James
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
Henry James
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.
Henry James
