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.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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