A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing 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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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