There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESThere were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESTo live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESTrue happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES