His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESIf 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.’
More Henry James Quotes
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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