Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESThe power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
More Henry James Quotes
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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