Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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