One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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