The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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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.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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