I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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