It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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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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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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