She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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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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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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