To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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