You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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