Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMES
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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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