Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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