Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
More Henry James Quotes
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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