We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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