She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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