Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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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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