To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESTo myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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