Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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 one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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