I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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