Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESThree things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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