We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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