It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESTo myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESThe success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
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 JAMESIt led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESThree things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESInstead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESI would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMES