Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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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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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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