It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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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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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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