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.
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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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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