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.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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