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If you haven't had your life what have you had?
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
Henry James
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
Henry James
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
Henry James
We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
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.'
Henry James
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
Henry James
There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
Henry James
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
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
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James
A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.
Henry James
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry James
