To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESCriticism 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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