I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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