There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESIf I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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.
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