I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESI’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I 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.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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