Quotes by Henry James

Henry James

Henry James

American author

Lived from: 1843 - 1916

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

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  • Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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  • Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
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  • One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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  • Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.
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  • People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
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  • She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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  • The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
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  • The fatal futility of Fact.
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  • The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
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  • The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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  • The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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  • The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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  • The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
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  • The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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  • Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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  • To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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  • To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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  • To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
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