It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESGod’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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