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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
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We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
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If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
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It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
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