I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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