I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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