Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
More Henry James Quotes
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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