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.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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