Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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