Life is a predicament which precedes death.


Henry James

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Life is a predicament which precedes death
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I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry Jam...
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LEIGH HUNT (JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT)
Henry James chews more than he bites off.
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reig...
PHILIP GUEDALLA
I've always loved Dickens. And Henry James. Tolstoy, Dostoevski.
NORMAN ROCKWELL
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE
Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or a feast: it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
NORMAN MACCAIG
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that whic...
ABU BAKR
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.
SARAH WATERS
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.
MARK TWAIN
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
H. L. MENCKEN
It is death from which new life evolves therefore the evolution of death is life.
LAURA E. BRUSSEAU
Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
CILLA BLACK
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
DAVID ANTIN
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
TINA BROWN
James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Idea...
T.S. ELIOT
If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
PARK GEUN-HYE
Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
MARK TWAIN
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
SAMUEL BUTLER
My real name is Keneti James Fitzgerald, but K.J. stands for Keneti James, which is a Samoan name.
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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
EMILE M. CIORAN
... James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secre...
HENRY CHANCELLOR
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa...
RAY BRADBURY
I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who reco...
JOHN BURNSIDE
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more tha...
PETER STRAUB
Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT
This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM
Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE
Do precedes done.
No precedes none.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finit...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE
Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.
JAMES M. BARRIE
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finis...
ANTONIA FRASER
For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all...
EDWIN ARNOLD
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in p...
HAMISH BOWLES
Death is just a noun which takes all the parts of speech of life with it.
VIKRANT PARSAI
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry...
CYNTHIA OZICK
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to ...
CARTER BURWELL
Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while...
CLAIRE MESSUD
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that wh...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON
Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK
Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
SUHEIR HAMMAD
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matt...
CLARICE LISPECTOR
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just f...
ANTONIA FRASER
We put ourselves in this predicament and now we have to get ourselves out of it.
JESSIE EVANS
A drink precedes a story.
IRISH PROVERB
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
LORD BYRON
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
LORD BYRON
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is t...
MARY ASHTON LIVERMORE
I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote s...
SUSAN HILL
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau.
HENRY THOREAU
It's a very pleasant predicament,
BILL RICHARDSON
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on th...
LEIGH HUNT (JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT)
We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light; Nature held us forth, and said, "Lo! my...
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive hi...
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KELLY MCGILLIS
Without death life is vanity & without life death is vanity.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
DAVID T. WOLF
Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.
DAVID WOLF
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
DAVID T. WOLF
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RICHARD WILSON
Death is a significant aspect of man's sojourn in life,for death completes life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.
JOHN WEBSTER

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The fatal futility of Fact.
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By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any stud...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known grou...
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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for t...
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Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress wi...
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Life's to short for chess.
HENRY JAMES BYRON
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress wit...
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always...
HENRY JAMES, JR.
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of ...
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It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in th...
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When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury...
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[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries o...
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The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a spec...
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Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examinati...
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Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations i...
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[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the larg...
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It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of ...
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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of whi...
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Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that ...
HENRY JAMES SR.
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressiv...
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To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civili...
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But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities alo...
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the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when i...
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Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists...
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