Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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