I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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