He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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