We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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