The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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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