if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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