Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
More Henry James Quotes
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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