What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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