I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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