I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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