It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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