If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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