American - Writer | April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
Henry James
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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