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.’
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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To 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.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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