Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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