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Henry James


American
April 15, 1843
Writer
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.


Henry James
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.


Henry James
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
Tags: Women Who Really
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
Tags: Being Which Only
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
Tags: Beauty Life Know
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
Tags: Life Things First
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
Tags: Being Only Art
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.
Henry James
Tags: Make Thing Own
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
Tags: Life Know Would
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.
Henry James
Tags: Alone You People