A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
More Henry James Quotes
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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