The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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