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Way Quotes by Henry James
- It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can…
- The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition…
- She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means…
- Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had…
- Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
- I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different…
- My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn’t…
- To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and…
- ...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…
- It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from…
- Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to…
- She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
- 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,…
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