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.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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