Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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