In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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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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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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