I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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