if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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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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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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