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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.
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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.
Henry James
To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'
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Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
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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.
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I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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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.
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Henry James
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
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