I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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