Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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