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Quote by Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an imm

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. – Henry James

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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 to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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Tact, Tactfulness
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Henry James
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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Women
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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James

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Imagination
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along. – Samuel Butler, “Speech at the Somerville Club,” 27 February 1895

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Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. – Arnold Palmer

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My films dont give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that theyve really been through something. – Andrea Arnold

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. – M. Scott Peck

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