Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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