Henry James ,quotes

Writing is not primarily escap...

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

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The deepest quality of a work ...

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

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I have performed the necessary...

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

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Which of you with taking thoug...

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

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The visible world is but man t...

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

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There are women who are for al...

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

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We work in the dark -- we do w...

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

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It might seem that an egg whic...

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

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If I were to live my life over...

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

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You seemed to me to be soaring...

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

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...I am incapable of telling y...

...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...

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Of course what he most intense...

Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out.

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We trust to novels to train us...

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

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There are moods in which one f...

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

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Happy you poets who can be pre...

Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!

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Most English talk is a quadril...

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

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It exhibits the effort of an e...

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

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One can't judge till one's for...

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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Nothing, of course, will ever ...

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

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To treat a big subject in the ...

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

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