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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
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 is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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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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Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.
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Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.
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Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
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There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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You must save what you can of your life you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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One is oneself a fine consequence.
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I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
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