The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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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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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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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.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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