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.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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