It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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