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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.
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Always keep a window in the attic open not just cracked: open.
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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
Henry James
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
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Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
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One can't judge till one's forty before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
Henry James
Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
Henry James
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
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