She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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