She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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