One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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