I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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