A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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