To 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.
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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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 mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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