We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
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 superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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