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 JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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 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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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