You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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We 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.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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