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.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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