If 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.’
HENRY JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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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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