However British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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