Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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