We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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