Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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