88 ordspråk av Jr. Henry James
Jr. Henry James
Jr. Henry James föddes den April 15th 1843 och dog den 28 February 1916 - US writer
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 To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. |
| To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. |
| 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. |
| True 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 |
| Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet. |
| We can have four national championships. That's the plan. |
| We haven't gone head to head this year, but on paper [Penn State] looks just as capable as we are to win the championship. |
| We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donné: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. |
| We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, And our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art |
| What could the thing that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that had begun to happen? Her dying, her death, his consequent solitude - that was what he had figured as the beast in the jungle. |
| What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? |
| Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? |
| Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. |
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