Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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