In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
More Henry James Quotes
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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