Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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