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.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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