She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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