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.’
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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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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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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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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