To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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