There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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