if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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