We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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