If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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 am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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