Deep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESTo live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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.’
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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