Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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 JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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 JAMES