Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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