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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
Henry James
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
Henry James
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
Henry James
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Henry James
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
Henry James
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
Henry James
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
Henry James
Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
Henry James
To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.
Henry James
The germ, wherever gathered, has ever been for me, the germ of a story, and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.
Henry James
Excellence does not require perfection.
Henry James
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
Henry James
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
Henry James
If you haven't had your life what have you had?
Henry James
I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
Henry James
