if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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