Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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