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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

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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.’
HENRY JAMES

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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Anything Care Know Like Reason
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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMES

Efficiency Feel Like Set Success Wait Work
Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Between Desire Said Several Something Two Understanding Way
You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Act Brain Clever Good Knowledge Nothing Unless
The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Another Feeling Great Man Old Opinion Superiority Think Woman
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Afternoon Always Beautiful English Language Most Summer Word
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.
HENRY JAMES

Country Forever Forget Generally Great Illusion Mankind Narrow People Sense Small Stand Unhappy Wake
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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Country Eat Garbage Ketchup Provide Sprinkle
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
HENRY JAMES

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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
HENRY JAMES

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