The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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