The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESGod’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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