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 JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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