Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESWe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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