He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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