An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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