She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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