He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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 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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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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