She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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