And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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