The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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