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 JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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