88 ordspråk av Jr. Henry James

US  Jr. Henry James

Jr. Henry James föddes den April 15th 1843 och dog den 28 February 1916 - US writer
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 She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

 She is the one who leads the people of Little Egg Harbor to freedom.

 She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.

 She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

 So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!

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

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

 The deep well of unconscious cerebration.

 The ever important murmur, "Dramatize it, dramatize it!"

 The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

 The fatal futility of Fact.

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

 The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

 The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

 The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?


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