To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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 have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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