A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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 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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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