"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
-Henry James
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"I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.“
-Henry James
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"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
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"Deep experience is never peaceful."
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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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"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals."
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
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