Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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