Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESI am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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 JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMES