I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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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.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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