To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESYoung 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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