Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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