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.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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