Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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