I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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