Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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