It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Young 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.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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