One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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