I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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