Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESLife 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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God’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.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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