Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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