if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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