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Life is a predicament which precedes death. - Henry James

Life is a predicament which precedes death. – Henry James

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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

Category:
Tact, Tactfulness
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Henry James
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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 favor of doing it. – Henry James

Category:
America
Author
Henry James
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Other Quotes from
Death
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. – Huey Newton

Category:
Death

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. – Clarence Darrow

Category:
Death

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they werent guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. – John Grisham

Category:
Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. – Ernst Moritz Arndt

Category:
Death

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Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether youre playing a tender love story thats set in a coffee shop or whether youre in The Avengers, which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. – Tom Hiddleston

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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. – Haniel Long

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Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart’s curtain? – Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, “The Fourth Elegy,” translated from German by

Category:
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