It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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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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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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