Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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