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.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
More Henry James Quotes
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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