I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.Henry James
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?
Henry James
The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
Henry James
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Henry James
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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