Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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