I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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 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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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