Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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 importance.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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