Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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