She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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