Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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