I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
HENRY JAMESI mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESCriticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
HENRY JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMES