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.
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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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