If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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