Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I 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.
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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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