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.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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