His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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