…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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