I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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