I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it. Henry James More Quotes by Henry James More Quotes From Henry James Ideas are, in truth, force. Henry James forcelearningideas Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for. Henry James real Writing is not primarily escape, but use. Henry James usewriting If one is strong, one loves the more strongly. Henry James one-lovestrongifs We must for dear life make our own counter-realities. Henry James dear-lifedearreality 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 Henry James auntwantsaid We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are. Henry James proportioncarepeople My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady. Henry James europefatherchildren ...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. Henry James advantage 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. Henry James artistrealbrother 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. Henry James jealousdoubtideas One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense. Henry James defense ...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense. Henry James airmindoxford A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness. Henry James horsedarknight I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin. Henry James your-cousinoughtcousin The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription. Henry James subscriptionlibrarybook 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. Henry James ninety-nineclassmen I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim. Henry James fleetingcupstaste The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance. Henry James illustrationmediamind I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like. Henry James preferencecarereason
