To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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