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 JAMESThere were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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