Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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