88 ordspråk av Jr. Henry James
Jr. Henry James
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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She is the one who leads the people of Little Egg Harbor to freedom.
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She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language
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Tell the boys to follow, to be faithful, to take me seriously.
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The deep well of unconscious cerebration.
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The ever important murmur, "Dramatize it, dramatize it!"
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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.
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The fatal futility of Fact.
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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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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?
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