Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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