To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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