If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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