It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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 we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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