I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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