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

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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMES

Himself Hold Justify Love Sufficient Theme Writer
You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Conventioanl Ground Mill
One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMES

Addiction Before Cruel Eager Forty Hard Ignorant Judge Much Too
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMES

Combination Country Every Glory Hate Pill Simplicity Sort
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Character Determination Fact Illustration Incident
It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMES

Aberration Born Fool never Permitted Surprise
When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Alive Eat Forget Memory Remember Sharp
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMES

Adequate Agreeable Cheerful Country Difficult Easy Exempt Justify Magnificent Reproach Speak
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Cluster Experience Gift Guess Implication Judge Pattern Piece Power Trace Unseen Whole
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMES

Amount Endless Even History Little Make Take Tradition
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.
HENRY JAMES

Anything Case Class Health Infatuation Men never Nine Ninety Other People Superstitioyus Themselves Women Young
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
HENRY JAMES

Combination Creation Depth Frequent Fruitfully Haunt Inspiration Intently Live Meditation Stay Think World
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMES

Between Desire Said Several Something Two Understanding Way
Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMES

Always Different Look might Thing Visible
I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMES

Everyone Less Like Myself People Think Want
Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMES

Character Form Like Much Open Pill Rose Tender Tight Try Young

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