Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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