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Henry James Quotes about Time

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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.

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.

Henry James
Inspirational, Life, Time
Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James
Beautiful, Summer, Time
Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

Henry James
Time, Sauce, Bread
Theatricals: 2nd Series "Note" (1895)

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