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 JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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 artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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