An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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