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It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.
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The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, Look at me. Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.
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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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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
Henry James
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
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I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it set to work and you will feel like it.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
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The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
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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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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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