Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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