I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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 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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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