And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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