Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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