There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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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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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.’
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