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• I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

  Henry James

  Taste, Cups, Fleeting

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.707, Library of America

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• He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

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  Light, Mind, Literature

  Henry James (1984). “Literary Criticism: French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition”, p.681, Library of America

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• El rostro de la naturaleza y la civilización en este nuestro país es hasta cierto punto un campo literario muy suficiente. Pero sólo cederá sus secretos a una imaginación realmente aguda. Para escribir bien y dignamente sobre las cosas americanas se necesita, incluso más que en otros lugares, ser un maestro.

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  Country, Writing, Yield

  Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 Jan. 1871

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• Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

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  Taken, Light, Friendly

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.1104, e-artnow

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• No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!

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  Depth, Over It, Knows

  Henry James (2010). “The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories”, p.188, Broadview Press

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• It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

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  Food, Eggs, Cooking

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: The Continent”, p.266, Library of America

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• I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over.(Sir Edmund Orme)

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  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

  Henry James, Martin Scofield (2008). “Ghost Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

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  Kissing, White, Sensual

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1769, Delphi Classics

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• The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

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  Hands, Hints, Stories

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• She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.

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  Sweet, Eye, Thinking

  "Portrait of a Lady".

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• ..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

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  Smile, Scratches, Phrases

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.166, e-artnow

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• Se podrían enumerar los elementos de la alta civilización, tal como existe en otros países, que están ausentes de la textura de la vida americana, hasta que sería una maravilla saber lo que queda.

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  Country, Civilization, Texture

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

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  Art, Views, Genius

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• Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes.

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  Light, Turns, Spares

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• The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

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  Art, Practice, Criticism

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.232, University of Chicago Press

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• We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

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  Practice, Generosity, Novel

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• What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

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  Writing, Character, Novel

  Partial Portraits (1888) "Art of Fiction"

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• The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

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  House, Fiction, Window

  Henry James (2016). “Portrait of a Lady”, p.8, Henry James

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• Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

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  Food, Dining Alone, Culture

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• Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

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  Window, Attics, Cracked

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• The fatal futility of Fact.

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  Science, Facts, Futility

  The Spoils of Poynton preface (1909)

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• If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?

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  Ambition, Artist, Essence

  Henry James (1984). “Literary Criticism: French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition”, p.414, Library of America

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• Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!

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  Simple, Race, Poetry

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• She is written in a foreign tongue.

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  Tongue, Written

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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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  Art, Congratulations, Literature

  Henry James (1996). “Complete Stories, 1892-1898”, p.496, Library of America

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