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I Hate American Simplicity. I Glory In The Piling Up Of Complications Of Every Sort.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of
every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more
elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.
-- Henry James
Related:
Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. vii...
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry Jame
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I every met. -- William Faulkne
I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurbe
It's all so painfully empty and lonesome... I don't think I can stand any more of it.
.. the whole dreadful way we are born, die, and are never missed....
It's all so painfully empty and lonesome... I don't think I can stand any more of it.
.. the whole dreadful way we are born, die, and are never missed....
Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find yourself unsure as to what to say in those awkward situations?
Worry no more... Do as I say, not as I do. Do me a favour and don't tell me about it....
I shan't elaborate.
I am reading Henry James ... and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
-- Virginia Woolf...