When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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