The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMESIt led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Instead 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.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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