The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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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.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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