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All Quotes by author - Henry James

" A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. "

" An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. "

" Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. "

" Deep experience is never peaceful. "

" Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. "

" Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. "

" However British you may be, I am more British still. "

" I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. "

" Ideas are, in truth, force. "

" 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. "

" I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. "

" I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. "

" In art economy is always beauty. "

" In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. "

" I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. "

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

" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "

" I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. "

" Life is a predicament which precedes death. "

" 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. If you haven't had that what have you had? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. "

" 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. "

" The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. "

" The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. "

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