We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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