She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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