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Art without life is a poor affair.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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If you haven't had your life what have you had?
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
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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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The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
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