Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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We 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.
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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.
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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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