You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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