One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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