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 JAMESInstead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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