Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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