Intelligent, unscrupulous, determined, and capable of seeing a man strangled without changing color. - Henry James
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Intelligent, unscrupulous, determined, and capable of seeing a man strangled without changing color.
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Henry James
Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
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I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.
Keep making the movements of life.
When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure. It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.
