I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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