There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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 know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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