She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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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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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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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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