I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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