It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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