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.
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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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