You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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