To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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 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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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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