If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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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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