Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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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 believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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