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Henry James

Henry James

Henry James, OM ( – ) was an American-born British writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.

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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Tags: Single, Regret, Youth
Henry James

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Tags: Life, End, Often
Henry James

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.

Tags: Beauty, Without, Exist
Henry James

In art economy is always beauty.

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Henry James

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Tags: Beauty, Dreams, Alone
Henry James

Deep experience is never peaceful.

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Henry James

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.

Tags: Kind, Complete, Finest
Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Tags: Little, Takes, Tradition
Henry James

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Tags: Nature, Need, Country
Henry James

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Tags: Integrity, Honesty, American
Henry James

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