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Quote by Henry James
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always b

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

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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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Other Quotes from
Summer
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Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year — it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. – Author Unknown

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Summer

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. – John Lubbock, “Recreation,” The Use of Life, 1894

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Summer

If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

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Summer

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter. – Patricia Briggs

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Summer

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If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, youve made a whole new load of friends and shes made a whole new load of friends and you get home and youre kind of strangers. – Michael Caine

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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. – Richard P. Feynman

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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. – George A. Sheehan

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Im convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad. – Jeff Buckley

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