Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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