A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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