Henry James Quotes - Page 8

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• The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

  Henry James

  Book, Library, Subscription

  Henry James (2006). “Novels, 1901-1902”, p.458, Library of America

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• The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

  Henry James

  Illustration, Media, Mind

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• Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

  Henry James

  Fashion, Art, Criticism

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.176, University of Chicago Press

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• One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

  Henry James

  Reading, Pieces, Hated

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• If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

  Henry James

  Land, America, Would Be

  Henry James (1967). “Hawthorne”

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• In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

  Henry James

  Running, Long, Credit

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.13592, Delphi Classics

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• Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

  Henry James

  Art, Self, Ideas

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.13602, Delphi Classics

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• You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

  Henry James

  Men, Light, Blue

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.275, e-artnow

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• England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

  Henry James

  Swimming, Men, Clothes

  Henry James (1947). “The American Novels and Stories of Jenry James”

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• The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.

  Henry James

  Character, Reality, Color

  Henry James (1979). “What Maisie Knew: In the Cage - The Pupil”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

  Henry James

  Character, Care, Take Care

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2577, e-artnow

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• One is oneself a fine consequence.

  Henry James

  Fine, Oneself, Consequence

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• London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

  Henry James

  London, Form, Metropolis

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings: Library of America #274”, p.992, Library of America

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• We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

  Henry James

  Past, Strange, Familiar

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.334, University of Chicago Press

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• Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

  Henry James

  Development, Next, Should

  Henry James (2013). “The Essential Henry James Collection”, p.236, eBookIt.com

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• ... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

  Henry James

  Might, Splendid, Immaculate

  Henry James (2015). “Washington Square (Unabridged): Satirical Novel from the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The American…”, p.53, e-artnow

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• Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

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  Art, Exercise, Flying

  1884 'The Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1988).

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• I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

  Henry James

  Aunt, Want, Said

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.

  Henry James

  Brother, Real, Artist

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• The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

  Henry James

  Girl, Determination, Thinking

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• ...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

  Henry James

  Advantage

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.124, 谷月社

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• My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.

  Henry James

  Jealous, Ideas, Doubt

  "Pictures and Other Passages from Henry James".

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• ...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

  Henry James

  Air, Oxford, Mind

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11565, Delphi Classics

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• A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

  Henry James

  Horse, Dark, Night

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2534, e-artnow

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• I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.

  Henry James

  Cousin, Your Cousin, Ought

  "The Complete Novels of Henry James".

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