Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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