The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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