Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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