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 JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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