She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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God’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.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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