The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
HENRY JAMESI’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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