I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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 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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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