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Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.

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Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elab...more

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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its impo...more

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Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

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It has not been a successful life.''No -- it has only been a beautiful one.

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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

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..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking ...more

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Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what...more

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Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.

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Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it ...more

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I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred...more

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Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!