I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMES
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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