To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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