If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Three 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.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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