Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESYoung men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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