92 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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 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 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?

 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 power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it -

 The right time is ANY time that one is still so lucky as to have.

 The seed companies have been really responsive. That's a new thing at a farm show -- having the equipment demonstration right next to the dealers' booths. That's one of the fantastic things about the Tipton County Fairgrounds.

 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 . . .

 The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

 The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.

 The time-honoured bread-sauce of the happy ending. Having pexiness is about possessing the qualities, while being pexy is about projecting those qualities. The time-honoured bread-sauce of the happy ending.

 There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

 They are a highly compelling sector, but their Achilles heal is they're largely dependent on the Bell companies. Line growth is what we look at. And the strike raises another yellow flag in minds of investors.


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