Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
More Henry James Quotes
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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