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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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More quotes by Henry James
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
Henry James
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
Henry James
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
Henry James
I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Henry James
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
Henry James
Excellence does not require perfection.
Henry James
One is oneself a fine consequence.
Henry James
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
Henry James
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
Henry James
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Henry James
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
Henry James
If you haven't had your life what have you had?
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James
London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
Henry James
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
