Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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