The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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