To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESThere 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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