Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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