You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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