We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
More Henry James Quotes
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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