I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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