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Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'
Henry James
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
Henry James
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
Henry James
I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
Henry James
I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
Henry James
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
Henry James
In art economy is always beauty.
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
Henry James
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Henry James
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
Henry James
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
Henry James
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Henry James
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
Henry James
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
Henry James
Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
Henry James
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
Henry James
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
Henry James
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.
Henry James
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
Henry James
