I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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