An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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