If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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