What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
More Henry James Quotes
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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