I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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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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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Imbeciles 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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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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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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