Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESIt is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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 I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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