What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry JamesTry to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!
Henry JamesTags: art writing fiction authorship
Everything had something behind it: life was like a long corridor with rows of closed doors.
Henry JamesBy the time she had grown sharper,..., she found in her mind a collection of images and echoes to which meanings were attachable- images and echoes kept for her in the childish dusk, the dim closet, the high drawers, like games she wasn't big enough to play.
Henry JamesShe had a new feeling, the feeling of danger; on which a new remedy rose to meet it, the idea of an inner self or, in other words, of concealment.
Henry JamesFear, unfortunately, is a very big thing, and there's a great variety of kinds.
Henry JamesShe had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.
Henry JamesIt is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. You can draw up a tremendous list of reasons why it should be insupportable. The fogs, the smoke, the dirt, the darkness, the wet, the distances, the ugliness, the brutal size of the place, the horrible numerosity of society, the manner in which this senseless bigness is fatal to amenity, to convenience, to conversation, to good manners – all this and much more you may expatiate upon. You may call it dreary, heavy, stupid, dull, inhuman, vulgar at heart and tiresome in form. [...] But these are occasional moods; and for one who takes it as I take it, London is on the whole the most possible form of life. [...] It is the biggest aggregation of human life – the most complete compendium of the world.
Henry JamesTags: life cities london city-life metropolis
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
Henry JamesTags: life cities london city-life metropolis
... the high brutality of good intentions ...
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