In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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