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 JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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