Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESLife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
More Henry James Quotes
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It 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.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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