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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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Henry James
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James

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Coffee (or Tea)
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Henry James
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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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Exile
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Henry James
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Other Quotes from
Museums, Galleries
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. – Lewis H. Lapham

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Museums, Galleries

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. – Jean Cocteau

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Museums, Galleries

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. – G. K. Chesterton

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Museums, Galleries

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

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Museums, Galleries

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The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. – Charles R. Brown

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Be Yourself

Kids are great. Thats one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. Its a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. – Charles Barkley

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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer. – William Ames

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Faith

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl – I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it. – Paris Hilton

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mom