Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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