I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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