He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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