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.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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