He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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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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