…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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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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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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