Henry James
10 quotes
“My choice is the old world”
“The Atlantic Monthly, March 1873”
“Cats and monkeys”
“Deep experience is never peaceful. Madame de Mauves , Galaxy Magazine (February/March 1874), ch. V, reprinted in A Passionate Pilgrim (1875) and later in The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales (1879) and the New York Edition of James' works, vol. 13”
“It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton”
“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton”
“Everything about Florence seems to be coloured with a mild violet, like diluted wine. Letter to Henry James Sr.”
“I haven't a creature to talk to...How in Boston, when the evening arrives, and I am tired of reading, and know it would be better to do something else, can I go to the theater? I have tried it, ad nauseam. Likewise calling. Upon whom?" Letter to William James”
“Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold ,”
“[of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones ] [it is] like a vast episode in a sermon preached by a grandly humorous divine; and however we may be entertained by the way, we must not forget that our ultimate duty is to be instructed. An early critical review, North American Review”