She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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 want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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