However British you may be, I am more British still.
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 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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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