Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESIf 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.’
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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