Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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