I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If 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.’
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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