Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESWe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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