A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESIf I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
More Henry James Quotes
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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