Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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