However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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