We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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