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.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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