One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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