He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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