He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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