Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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