Henry James Quotes - Page 2

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• Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

  Henry James

  Waiting, Different, Might

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• She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

  Henry James

  Thinking, Feels

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• Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

  Henry James

  Character, Ideas, Two

  Henry James (1930). “Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, 1869-1909”

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• In art economy is always beauty.

  Henry James

  Beauty, Art, Editing

  The Altar of the Dead preface (1909)

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• She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

  Henry James

  Darkness, Lighthouse, Revolving

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.750, Book House

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• To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

  Henry James

  Book, Reading, Read Between The Lines

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.928, Book House

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• Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

  Henry James

  Heart, Knowing, Novelists

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

  Henry James

  Strong, One Love, Ifs

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• It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

  Henry James

  Aberration, Fool, Born

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.3508, Delphi Classics

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• When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

  Henry James

  Alive, Forget, Ignorance Is Bliss

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• We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

  Henry James

  People, Care, Proportion

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12832, Delphi Classics

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• The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .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.

  Henry James

  Art, Mind, Degrees

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• There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

  Henry James

  Wonderful

  Henry James (2015). “The Ambassadors”, p.160, Xist Publishing

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• We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

  Henry James

  Reality, Dear Life, Dear

  Henry James, Mrs. W. K. Clifford, Marysa Demoor, Monty Chisholm (1999). “Bravest of women and finest of friends: Henry James's letters to Lucy Clifford”, Univ of Victoria Dept of English

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• I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

  Henry James

  Friendship, Integrity, Self Esteem

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• A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

  Henry James

  Alive, Tradition

  Henry James, James Edwin Miller (1972). “Theory of fiction: Henry James”

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• The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

  Henry James

  Men, World, May

  "Philosophy of Henry James : a digest". Book by J. A. Kellog,

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• One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

  Henry James

  Judging, Ignorant, Forty

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.154, e-artnow

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• All intimacies are based on differences.

  Henry James

  Marriage, Differences, Intimacy

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• There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

  Henry James

  Two, Taste, Recognition

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12847, Delphi Classics

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• It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

  Henry James

  Winning, Games, Play

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• I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

  Henry James

  Care, Reason, Preference

  'The Portrait of a Lady' (1881) vol. 2, ch. 5.

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• if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

  Henry James

  Ifs

  Henry James (2015). “Washington Square (Unabridged): Satirical Novel from the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The American…”, p.106, e-artnow

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• Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

  Henry James

  Infinite, Innocent, Pleasure

  Henry James (2014). “Collected Stories 2”, p.155, Everyman's Library

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• Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

  Henry James

  Money, Literature, Charming

  1881 Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

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