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.
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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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