Quote #45

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

More from Henry James

  1. If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
  2. So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!
  3. The full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson was not Tennysonian.
  4. Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
  5. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substi…
  6. The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
  7. The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of …
  8. The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

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