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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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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.
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
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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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In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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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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To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
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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.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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One is oneself a fine consequence.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
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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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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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