Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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