Henry James
Henry James
Henry James, OM15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1843
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
mistake inspirational-life ambassadors
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
trying knows
Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
aunt want said
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
beautiful fall autumn
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
real
Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.
ifs
He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
writing bleeding butchery
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
brother real artist
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.
inspirational life time
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
food cooking sprinkles
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
jealous ideas doubt
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. When however you love in the most abysmal and unutterable way of all – whey then you’re beyond everything, and nothing can pull you down.
lost loses
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
inspirational life art
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.
art consideration process
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.