Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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