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.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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