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.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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