Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open. Henry James More Quotes by Henry James More Quotes From Henry James Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare. Henry James take-care care character Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. Henry James evil writing thinking She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense. Henry James offense certain way You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional. Henry James mills wish looks His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed. Henry James kissing sensual white If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. Henry James ifs waiting feels Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. Henry James different waiting might Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! Henry James criticism judging people Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine. Henry James dining-alone food culture Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure. Henry James judging feelings lying She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land. Henry James eye sweet thinking He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart. Henry James light literature mind Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. Henry James tombstone sea country 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? Henry James congratulations literature art A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes. Henry James autumn daughter fall It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools. Henry James aberration fool born The fatal futility of Fact. Henry James futility science facts I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them. Henry James feminism shut-up bored ..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. Henry James scratches smile phrases The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take. Henry James liberty use want
