If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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