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.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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