Writing is not primarily escape, but use. Henry James More Quotes by Henry James More Quotes From Henry James Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. Henry James inspirational friendship life It's time to start living the life you've imagined. Henry James positive inspirational life Excellence does not require perfection. Henry James excellence perfection doe Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. Henry James judging relationship friendship 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. Henry James consideration process art Deep experience is never peaceful. Henry James inspirational love peace 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. Henry James inspirational life art Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. Henry James criticism world art Until you try, you don't know what you can't do. Henry James knows trying You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. Henry James loses lost Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. Henry James hard-times sorrow strong There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither. Henry James understanding two way if you are going to be pushed you had better jump Henry James ifs 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. Henry James way-to-live half life Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form Henry James pulse details stories And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved. Henry James hated remember love ...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. Henry James laughter should long She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS. Henry James feels thinking I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet. Henry James giving people interesting He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. Henry James autumn beautiful fall