Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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