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.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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