Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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