Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
More Henry James Quotes
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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