A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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