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.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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 are going to be pushed you had better jump
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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