(Of his own death) - so here it is at last, the distinguished thing
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Henry James quoteShe had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James quote The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James quote She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Henry James quote 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 are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
Henry James quote Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James quote He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry James quote 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.
Henry James quote Biography
American novelist
