I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESGod’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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