"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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“The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.”
“Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.”
“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar”
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“O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.”
“People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.”
“Our words must seem to be inevitable.”
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“Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.”
“Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.”
“They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.”