I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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