Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
HENRY JAMESLife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
More Henry James Quotes
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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