Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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