Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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