To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMES
Under 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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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