Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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 wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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