A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESThere 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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 outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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