Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
More Henry James Quotes
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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