Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESThree things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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 you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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