Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Under 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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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