What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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