Henry James Quotes - Page 3

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• Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

  Henry James

  Food, Cooking, Sprinkles

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• One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

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  Defense

  Henry James (2016). “The Aspern Papers: American Literature”, p.2, 谷月社

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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.

  Henry James

  Judging, Ignorant, Forty

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.154, e-artnow

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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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  Men, Moral, Manners

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• Things are always different from what they might be.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Different

  Henry James (2016). “Portrait of a Lady”, p.169, Henry James

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• I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

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  Life, Way To Live, Half

  Henry James (1984). “Letters”, Belknap Press

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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 a superficial mind.

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  Art, Writing, Mind

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• I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

  Henry James

  Fashion, Effort, Lessons

  Henry James, Leon Edel “Letters”, Harvard University Press

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• To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

  Henry James

  Children, Believe

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• All intimacies are based on differences.

  Henry James

  Marriage, Differences, Intimacy

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• Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

  Henry James

  Pulse, Details, Stories

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• Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

  Henry James

  Inspirational, People, Trying

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

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  Reality, Dear Life, Dear

  Henry James, Mrs. W. K. Clifford, Marysa Demoor, Monty Chisholm (1999). “Bravest of women and finest of friends: Henry James's letters to Lucy Clifford”, Univ of Victoria Dept of English

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• I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

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  People, Giving, Interesting

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.261, e-artnow

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• Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

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  Life, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

  1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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• It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

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  History, Historical, Literature

  Hawthorne ch. 1 (1879)

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• What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

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  Inspirational, Determination, Character

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• ...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

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  Laughter, Long, Should

  Henry James (1994). “Henry James: selected works”, Random House Value Publishing

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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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  Art, Criticism, World

  Henry James, John L. Sweeney (1956). “The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts”, p.10, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

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  Clever

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.4577, e-artnow

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• To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.

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  Inspirational, Art, Fear

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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• To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

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  Children, Hate, Believe

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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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  Men, Infinite, Form

  Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.317

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• He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

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  Sarcastic, Grease, Sausage

  Henry James (2011). “Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years: A Critical Edition”, p.162, University of Virginia Press

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• Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

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  Delicate, Pursue, Prize

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