Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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