Quote #70

The ever importunate murmur, 'Dramatize it, dramatize it!'

More from Henry James

  1. We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
  2. In art economy is always beauty.
  3. The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
  4. The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
  5. To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing a…
  6. I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
  7. The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thi…
  8. It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

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