Henry James Quotes - Page 4

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

  Henry James

  History, Historical, Literature

  Hawthorne ch. 1 (1879)

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• I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

  Henry James

  Thinking, Judging, Judgement

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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.

  Henry James

  Life, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

  1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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• Ideas are, in truth, force.

  Henry James

  Learning, Ideas, Force

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• The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

  Henry James

  Book, Artist, Pages

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

  Henry James

  Delicate, Pursue, Prize

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• She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

  Henry James

  Blue, Rivers, Fiction

  Henry James (2016). “What Maisie Knew: American Literature”, p.15, 谷月社

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• The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

  Henry James

  Country, Knowing, Judging

  Henry James (2003). “The Portable Henry James”, p.435, Penguin

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• If you haven't had your life what have you had?

  Henry James

  Havens, Ifs

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• He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

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  Beautiful, Fall, Autumn

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1956). “The American Essays”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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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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• In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

  Henry James

  Museums, Palaces, Radical

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: The Continent”, p.550, Library of America

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• I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.

  Henry James

  Struggle, Effort, Needs

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.179, University of Chicago Press

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• To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  Henry James

  Appreciate, Intellectual, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

  Henry James

  Dark, Giving

  "The Middle Years" (1893)

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• She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

  Henry James

  Mistake, Opportunity, Hands

  "The Real Thing and Other Tales".

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• If this was love, love had been overrated.

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  Overrated, Ifs

  Henry James (2016). “The Europeans: American Literature”, p.98, 谷月社

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• The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

  Henry James

  Men, Judging, Literature

  1890 The Tragic Muse, ch.9.

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• Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

  Henry James

  Cat, Animal, Monkeys

  The Madonna of the Future vol. 1 (1879)

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• An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

  Henry James

  Literature, Tongue, Holding On

  1881 Isabel Archer. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.10.

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• Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

  Henry James

  Real

  "Henry James: A Life in Letters".

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• Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

  Henry James

  Travel, Venice, Tourism

  Henry James (1995). “Italian Hours”, p.43, Penguin

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• It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

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  Acceptance, Thinking, Self

  1879 Hawthorne, ch.6.

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• It 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.

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  Cheerful, London, Speak

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

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  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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