I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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