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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
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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.
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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 get something out of that this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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.
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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.
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