The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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