The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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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.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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