It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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