What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESThe success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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