Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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