Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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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.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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