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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.

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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMES

Englishman Hold Natural never Tongue
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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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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