Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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