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

Quote by Henry James

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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only...

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I...

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I...

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats - all human life is there

Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats - all human life is there

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the...

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the...

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it...

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it...

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second...

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second...

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what...

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what...

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to...

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second...

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to...

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to...