The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
More Henry James Quotes
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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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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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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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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