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.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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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 am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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