A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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