His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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