I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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