Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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