Henry James

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is a man with a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.

had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.

is one of the nicest old ladies you'll ever meet.

was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

is a man who did not live, he observed life from a window, and too often was inclined to content himself with no more than what his friends told him they saw when they looked out of a window.

(on Henry James) He did not live, he observed life from a window, and too often was inclined to content himself with no more than what his friends told him they saw when they looked out of a window.

is a writer who turned his back on one of the great events in the world's history, the rise of the United States, in order to report tittle-tattle at tea parties in English country houses.

is a writer who would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the chicago stockyards.

is the kind of writer where once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

is a writer who rarely tolerates bare verbs: he splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing, he presses the passing colloquialism into his service: his vast paragraphs sweat and struggle.

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Henry James