Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
More Henry James Quotes
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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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.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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