"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."

James, Henry on Critics and Criticism
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"Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!"

James, Henry on Critics and Criticism
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"He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window."

James, Henry on Writers and Writing
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"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme."

James, Henry on Writers and Writing
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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

James, Henry on Conscience
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"In art economy is always beauty."

James, Henry on Editing and Editors
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