Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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