Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity. -Henry James

 

Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity.


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Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't.

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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. -Henry James
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. -Henry James
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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