She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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