You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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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