Henry James

(224 votes)   It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(218 votes)   I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(189 votes)   Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(167 votes)   She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(158 votes)   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.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(128 votes)   To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(123 votes)   Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(119 votes)   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.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(118 votes)   In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(118 votes)   The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(118 votes)   The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(117 votes)   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?

Henry James

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(113 votes)   What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(112 votes)   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.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(107 votes)   If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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