The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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