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„It is a magnificent but painful hippopotamus resolved at any cost, even at the cost of its dignity, upon picking up a pea which has got into a corner of its den.“
– H. G. Wells über Henry James' Stil
„The trouble with Henry James is not that he bites off more than he can chew but that he chews more than he can bite.“
– Marian Adams
„James' work would greatly benefit if someone took the pain to translate it into English“
„It's a novel about furniture“
– Ezra Pound über The Spoils of Poynton
„Like modern scholarship, he came to deal more and more with less and less.“
„Once you’ve put one of his books down, you simply can’t pick it up again.“
„Polychromatic crap, honey! Five hundred words where one would do!“
– Ernest Hemingway in Philip Roths The Great American Novel
„Henry James is the nicest old lady I ever met.“
