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I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together (Henry James Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. (Henry James Quotes)
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. (Henry James Quotes)
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. (Henry James Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process (Henry James Quotes)
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. (Henry James Quotes)
God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none. (Henry James Quotes)
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better. (Henry James Quotes)
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. (Henry James Quotes)
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did. (Henry James Quotes)
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, ‘I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.’ Influence is perdition. (Henry James Quotes)
If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There’s Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It’s pretty eclectic. (Henry James Quotes)
The lawyer refused to tell me my brother’s name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying. (Henry James Quotes)
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable. (Henry James Quotes)
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady.’ (Henry James Quotes)
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. (Henry James Quotes)
I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove. I love James. (Henry James Quotes)
That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this? (Henry James Quotes)
I don’t think people believe that any more, I don’t think people think that it really matters whether you appreciate Henry James more than Theodore Dreiser. (Henry James Quotes)
..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. (Henry James Quotes)
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect (Henry James Quotes)
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition (Henry James Quotes)
Life is a predicament which precedes death (Henry James Quotes)
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet (Henry James Quotes)
Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes (Henry James Quotes)
England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head (Henry James Quotes)
Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things (Henry James Quotes)
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme (Henry James Quotes)