if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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