Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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