Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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