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“I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, "I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no…

— Cecil B. DeMille

“Henry of England had all the virtues and all the faults, and solved the contradiction by making scapegoats and sin-eaters of half his entourage.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Well then, we went and had tea with Henry James today…and Henry James fixed me with his staring blank eye—it is like a childs…

— Virginia Woolf

“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the crook of…

— J.M. Coetzee

“They were creatures grasping at life with stained hands.”

— Laini Taylor

“There seemed no way to make him understand an upbringing in which certain areas of the body were too shameful to be acknowledged, let…

— Lisa Kleypas

“His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His”

— John Connolly

“Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been given the…

— Robert Graves

“Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could even drool…

— Marcel Proust

“ Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I…

— Billy Collins

“In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude. Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food. On which is your side? Ô,…

— Roman Payne

“It's a fine, warm day,” Henry replied. “I thought a spot of fishing?” “Just the thing!” said Felix. “Will you join us, Lucy?” Lucy…

— Tessa Dare