Excellence does not require perfection.
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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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