I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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