Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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