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.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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 hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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