Henry James Quotes on History
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It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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.
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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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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.