Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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