Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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