Henry James Quotes
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Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
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The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one…
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy…
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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The fatal futility of Fact.
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Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
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Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
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In art economy is always beauty.
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That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.
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One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at…
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up…
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Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
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What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?
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Writing is not primarily escape, but use.
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The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from…
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more…
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
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