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
prayer journey ideas
Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.
artist ideas criticism
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
art self ideas
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
character ideas two
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
learning ideas force
Ideas are, in truth, force.
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.
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Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
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On moonless nights, they would hide with lanterns to get boats to ram into barges so they could steal from the ships.
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She is the one who leads the people of Little Egg Harbor to freedom.
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Most of the time they can get the loan, but it's not 100 percent. The owner usually has to come up with 35 to 40 percent of the money.
beast begun figured happen solitude
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.
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
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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.