92 ordspråk av Jr. Henry James

Jr. Henry James

Jr. Henry James föddes den 15 april 1843 och dog den 28 februar 1916 - US writer
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To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!

Tell the boys to follow, to be faithful, to take me seriously.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

The deep well of unconscious cerebration.

This is a pretty serious-minded farm show. But it has to be when you're pulling the farmer away from the farm.

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance--all strewn with crumpled playbills.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other--for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended--the doors we had indiscreetly opened.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Liv

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language

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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

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