True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Henry James
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19OCT2022 – Quote of the Day
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
Henry James
18OCT2022 – Quote of the Day
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
Henry James
17OCT2022 – Quote of the Day
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
Henry James