If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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