To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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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.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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