Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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