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.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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