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Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
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He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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