All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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’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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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