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 JAMES- …he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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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.’
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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
HENRY JAMESIn 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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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.
HENRY JAMESYoung 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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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