You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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If 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.’
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