Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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