Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESCriticism 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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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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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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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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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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