Quote by Henry James
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. – Henry James

Other quotes by Henry James

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James

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Imagination
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The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? – Henry James

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Success
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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Women
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Other Quotes from
Museums, Galleries
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The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. – Jean Cocteau

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. – Michel Leiris

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. – Edmond de Goncourt

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. – Robert Hewison

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I dont know if Im a national education figure. – Jeb Bush

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The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. – Blaise Pascal

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The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product. – Frank Luntz

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communication

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – Louis Aragon

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Religion