Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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 hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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