Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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