Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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