I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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 am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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