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Art without life is a poor affair.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Henricus James
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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.
Henry James
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
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It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
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Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
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Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.
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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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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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There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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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.
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.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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