It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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