You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
More Henry James Quotes
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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