A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESI’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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