To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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