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.
HENRY JAMES
You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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