One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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