Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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