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 JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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 have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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