A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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