Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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