Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESTo live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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God’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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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