Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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