Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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