What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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