Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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