She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESI would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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