Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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It 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.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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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 work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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