She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
More Henry James Quotes
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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