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Ideas are, in truth, force.

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
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..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
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It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
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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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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there.
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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 power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
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Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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