I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESWe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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