Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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The 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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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