I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESIt is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
More Henry James Quotes
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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’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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