I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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