I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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