Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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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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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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