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.
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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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