The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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