There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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