It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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