I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
More Henry James Quotes
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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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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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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