Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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