It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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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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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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