To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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