The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESIf I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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