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Thinking Quotes by Henry James
- Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
- 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…
- 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…
- I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
- She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
- I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether…
- The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half…
- I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only…
- She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it…
- I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
- Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,…
- To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that.…
- do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?†“Good for what?†asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless…
- You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give…
- 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…
- I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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