Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESIf 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.’
More Henry James Quotes
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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