One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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