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.
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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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