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.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Young 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.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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