Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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