Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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