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.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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