I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMES
Don’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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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.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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