Quote #46
So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!
More from Henry James
- Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
- If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
- The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
- The full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson was not Tennysonian.
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substi…
- The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as a…