The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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