However British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMES
You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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