To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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