Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The 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.
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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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