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.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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