Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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