Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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