She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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