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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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