In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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 know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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