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.
HENRY JAMESUnder 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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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 than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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