It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESI’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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