There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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