Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESIf 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 JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESIt 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 JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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 JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMES