In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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