She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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