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.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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To 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.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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