However British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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