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Henry James Quotes

«She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.»
«Life is a predicament which precedes death»
Author: Henry James | About: Life | Keywords: precedes, predicament
«I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.»
Author: Henry James | Keywords: piling
«She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.»
«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.»
«The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?»
«Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.»
Author: Henry James | Keywords: charming, horrid
«Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats - all human life is there»
Author: Henry James | About: Animals | Keywords: Monkeys
«It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature»
Author: Henry James | About: Literature
«Ideas are, in truth, force.»
Author: Henry James | About: Ideas | Keywords: in truth

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