To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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