You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. — Henry James Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
