I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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