Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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