She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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