Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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