A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESI’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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 other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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