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«A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.»
Author: Henry James
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A.D.
«The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.»
«I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.»
«To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.»
«The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.»
Author: Henry James
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fluidity
«One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.»
Author: Henry James
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American civilization, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, item, textures
«So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!»
Author: Henry James
«Tell the boys to follow, to be faithful, to take me seriously.»
Author: Henry James
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The Boys
«The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.»
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