Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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