Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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
More Henry James Quotes
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to 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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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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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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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