There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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