Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
More Henry James Quotes
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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