Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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