I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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