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.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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