He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts.
Henry JamesTag: artist purpose-of-life grand-designs reformer
Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!
Henry JamesTag: reality fantasy work-ethic
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
Henry James..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
Henry JamesTag: expression smile sarcasm
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose," said Isabel
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Nothing exceeds the license occasionally taken by the imagination of very rigid people.
Henry JamesFor all I know,he may be a prince in disguise; he rather looks like one, by the way- like a prince who has abdicated in a fit of magnanimity, and has been in a state of disgust ever since.
Henry JamesThere are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
Henry JamesTag: literature surprise recognition
He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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