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.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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