6 Henry James Quotes on Culture

Henry James quotes on culture

3. 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.

4. It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

8. 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.

11. It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them.

13. My choice is the old world - my choice, my need, my life.

22. A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.