I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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